Monday, 3 August 2009

Stasi just missed the point completedly

The four things that are certain is that if you give the State any personal information, they will a) abuse that information, b) lose it c) record the data incorrectly,d) use it against you.

The obsession of this Stasi State is with the minutiae of your life, because nu-socialism and nu- conservatism requires you to conform. Neither celebrate diversity. By that I am not talking the narrow confines of Race, but of views, expectations and political outlook. Freedom to think is not a requirement of the State, that has already been done for you.

I was flicking through a book yesterday by Anna Funder, called Stasiland about the ordinary citizens experience in the DDR. The Stasi had vast files on each individual, torture cells, 'smell' jars with items of peoples underwear in, so that people could identified by their smell if they had done some like attend an illegal meeting.

Yet for all this vast amounts of information the Stasi failed to predict the fall of communism in the DDR !

And as for conditioning on both sides of the State/Citizen fence, when 'the people' stormed the Stasi offices in Leipzig, the Stasi demanded their ID papers when they broke in, The revolutionaries dutifully showed their papers. Formalities completed the Revolutionaries started taking the place apart, and the Stasi fled.

Government is a construct, it only exists because we believe it exists and has power over us. A bit like tinkerbell really !

Stop believing in the State, and it will be exposed for what it really is, a refuge for the incompetent.

Really good Guthrum & so thought provoking. That is what we need to do - disbelieve in them all. Asfor the story of 24 hr surveillancefor 'bad' families. how long before we are all judged 'bad'? Unfortunately there are already enough NWO converts to put this in place.

Stasi discipline did collapse towards the end. On the final night instead of broadcasting coded messages to agents on their shortwave station (as they had done for the last 30 odd years) the Stasi controllers got drunk and sang songs about ducks ..

I've just re-read Anna Funders' book and second time round it is more frightening than the first. when I first read it it was a case of 'that is terrible, but it'll never happen here'.

Now it seems that it is almost an allegory of modern day Britain. Populations watched and criminilised simply for existing. If you can do this to a population you will make everyone a suspect. If suspicion alone will show up as a negative in a CRB check and means that you cannot get work etc. then you will get a compliant docile populace too scared to resist as the penalty for even a minor infraction of a law is disproportionate. Think of someone convicted of having a smoke in the wrong place - thats a criminal record and it will show on any check. In this scenario the only way to lead a reasonably normal life is to be part of the system.

I worked in the GDR and the USSR where it seemd to me most people lived on vodka and potatoes, before the fall of the state machine. The people we worked with in heavy engineering were on the most part OK but very ill informed about the outside world so to wpeak. The point I want to make is how easy and quickly the overbearing state becomes normality. Truly frightening.

Yet again, more misinformation from this blog. The State in all its guises is all in favour of diverse "views, expectations and political outlook."

Just have a gander at the case of Dr Waqar Azim. Apparently feeling up the nurses whenever you feel like it, year after year, "[does] not represent a risk to patients" and is "not fundamentally incompatible with continuing as a doctor." Well, sure. The godless whores were probably flaunting their naked hair, and how can you sexually assault a prostitute?

Or here's Dr Mohammed Hussain who drove onto a pavement and killed a little baby. Since that's just fine in Pakistan where he doubtless "earned" his license, it's just dandy here!

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is it's justice; that is its morality.